The newest sexy senior selected to lead the next season of ABC’s The Golden Bachelor has already lost his audience after making some shockingly sexist and ageist comments about the show’s contestants.

Owens, who was announced as the next “Golden Bachelor” in April, noted that a producer for the show assured him that the women on his upcoming season are “going to be hot” regardless of their ages. He also recalled the producer telling him not to “use the word ‘cut’” to refer to eliminating contestants.

Mel Owens, a former NFL player — who was cast to follow Gerry Turner as the second Golden Bachelor — went on the In the Trenches podcast on June 4, where he was asked how much control he had over the women cast for his season.